The Love Box

Chapter 28

"We should get back to the party," Nicki said; then she shrugged my arm off of her, and she wiped her tears away. She checked her faint reflection in the mirror before she started to leave the laundry room, but I stopped her.

"What about my meeting with Claire?" I asked her.

"I doubt she will be meeting with you anymore," Nicki told me; then I watched as she strutted out of the laundry room and down the Bedroom hall. She entered the library, and I wiped away a tear that had formed in my eye.

A part of me was glad that I didn't have a sister to fight with, but another part of me wanted one for all the good memories. It was such a shame that Nicki and Claire had to be on opposite sides; they seemed to be very compatible if only they were for the same reasons.

After I wiped my tear away; I tracked my path back to the library, and I joined my group of friends who spoke with a few men.

"So why are you allowed on our side?" Sadie asked them as she inspected them with curiosity.

"We were decontaminated," One of the men replied. "It disintegrated all of the hormones that create the poison."

My friends glanced at me and smiled; I smiled back.

"Why don't they just do that for everyone?" I asked the men who stood with us.

"What do you mean?" Another one of the men asked.

"Why don't they just decontaminate all of us; then we could live together in peace," I explained to them; then I watched as the men thought of the possibility of my alternative to our lifestyle.

"That would take a long time," The first man told me.

"Longer than all of our lives?" I asked him. "It couldn't take that long; then we could be free."

"Well things don't always happen the way we want them to now do they," He retorted; then he turned his attention away from me, and he started conversation with my friends.

My friends ignored the man's rude being, and they acted as if he wasn't there in return. Eventually he realized the dilemma, and he left our group. His friends followed him.

None of us minded; they didn't seem to interest in us anyways. They were self-indulged with their own problems and didn't have time for ours, so we didn't need to have time for theirs.

I watched people walk by and talked to them if they stopped, but I wasn't too involved with any other activity. My head started to hurt, and I was tired.

"I think I'm going to bed," I told my friends; they nodded to me and said their goodbyes.

I turned around and walked away, and I closed my eyes for half a second right before I bumped into someone. My arms flew out, and I opened my eyes quickly to see my mom stood before me.